This is one of my favorite sculptures of all time. It is called Urban Light and it is at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and it is on a plaza outdoors, where you enter the museum. It is a large-scale assemblage sculpture by Chris Burden. It consists of 202 restored street lamps from the 1920's and 1930's arranged in a grid. Most of these lamps once lit the streets of Southern California. The lamps do have LED's in them and they turn on at sunset and stay on all night. People love to go in amongst these lamps and walk around and take photographs of themselves. I find this amazing sculpture such an uplifting experience to be in the presence of. Something uplifting, something we can all use. And that's why I chose this for my last post of the year, with a new year on the horizon. Please click on this image because it is a larger photograph and you will love all the detail. Happy New Year!
2 comments:
Very interesting with the different sizes and shapes of lanterns. Happy New Year. Joan
What a great display of retro light posts. It's beautiful. I can understand why people like to walk around through them.
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